From a cold jet to engines running. Hold your push-to-talk key and ask; Backseater boxes each switch in your cockpit and moves on when it's really set.
Get there and back
TACAN, ILS and steerpoints, the nearest friendly field, whether your fuel gets you home, and landing guidance down to the runway.
Survive the fight
Bandit calls, missile warnings, and practice MiGs spawned by voice whenever you want a fight.
What it can do
Everything here has been flown in the cockpit. You talk; it answers out loud. Nothing to read, so it works the same in VR.
Teach you the jet
Help me start the jet, set up for takeoff, I want to land: it picks the right procedure for the jet you're in.
Cold start, taxi, takeoff, navigation, landing and shutdown as spoken walk-throughs, one action per step.
Each switch is boxed in your cockpit, and the step moves on only when the switch is really set.
Carrier launch and the Case I pattern in the Hornet, with calls around the boat.
Where's the battery switch? boxes it for you.
Air-to-air missiles step by step: AMRAAM, Sidewinder and Sparrow.
What's the key for gear up? answered from your own DCS install.
Get you home
Nearest friendly field gives bearing, distance and which way to turn.
Do I have enough fuel to get there? answered from your real fuel burn.
What's the TACAN for Kutaisi? then walks you through tuning it.
Call me at ten miles, bingo fuel and altitude alerts.
Landing guidance that waits for you to be in the right place for each step.
An ILS approach in the Viper, with a live check that the jet is really receiving the signal.
Keep you alive
A radar controller on the radio: picture and bogey dope, with every group named Alpha, Bravo, Charlie.
Missile launch warnings with the direction to look, time to impact, and Clear when you've beaten it.
Close-in calls by clock position when the fight is too fast for compass bearings.
Splash calls and a running kill count.
Your wingman's status, and orders to friendly flights: Eagle, engage Bravo.
A mission brief when you enter the cockpit, and what was that message? when DCS text flashes past.
Honest about what it knows: it reports only what your side's radars can see.
Build your own practice
Spawn opponents mid-flight: put two MiG-29s twenty miles east of me.
Or friends: spawn two Su-33s to escort me.
Build a whole mission by voice, sentence by sentence: flights, air defences, ships, weather. It reads each piece back before it builds, then saves a mission file.
A carrier-versus-carrier war that runs itself: scouts, strikes, intercepts, tankers.
Next run, give me four AMRAAMs and two Sidewinders changes your loadout.
Stay out of your way
Push-to-talk on a key or a joystick button. It only listens while you hold it.
Urgent calls cut in; routine calls wait. Quiet and resume when you want silence.
Separate voices for the instructor, the ground controller and the AWACS.
Louder, labels off, brief mode: settings by voice, no menus.
Runs on your own PC, offline. No account, no subscription.
DCS's own mission safety settings stay switched on, and it only ever edits missions it built itself.
What it supports
F-16C, F/A-18C
Fully supported: start-up, takeoff, navigation, landing, air-to-air. Carrier operations in the Hornet.
F-14B, MiG-19P, MiG-29
Start-up and takeoff.
AH-64D
Start-up.
Maps
Field and beacon data for Caucasus, Marianas, Afghanistan, Kola, Syria and the Persian Gulf.
Coming
Air-to-ground weapons and more jets, in free updates.